Improvement in the manufacture of floor-cloths



UNITED STATES JAMES B. HODGSKIN,

PATENT OFFICE;

on NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 51,830, dated January2, 1866.

as the ordinary floor oil-cloths, and made of paper of suitablethickness and sufficiently tough, (any ordinary thick paper will 010,)prepared by the process invented by J H. Green, and described in theLetters Patent granted to James .B. Hodgskin, June 30, 1863, for animproved water-proof varnish for paper, cloths, 850., and havingsuitable designs printed upon its surface in oil or other colors.Oil-colors are preferred, though others may be used. The designs may beprinted or painted on the prepared paper by the machinery used inprinting the oil-cloths for floors now in use, or it may bedone in anyother way deemed best.

This will render the paper very'tough and v durable, so that it will beas well adapted to covering floors as the printed canvas com. monlyused, and cost very much less. The pa" per being properlyprinted with adesign, it

may be coated or varnished with the composition described in theabove-named Letters Patent, in order to form a more durable surface, orit may be used without this subsequent coating, as may be preferred{Having thus fully described my invention and the manner in which it' maybe usefully employed, I do not claim, broadly, painted or printed paperfor use on floors as a covering; but

I claim-- As a new article of manufacture, the paper described, whenprepared as hereinbefore set forth.

JAS. B. HODGSKIN.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM K. EVANS, THos. P. How.

